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Jin ACCOUNT of the GAME o/" CHESS, as played by the 

 , CHINESE, in a LETTER/ro»? EYLES IRWIN, Efqy 



to the Right Honourable the EARL o/" CH A RL EMONT, 



Trejident of the Royal Irijh Academy. 



My Lord> 



1 CONSIDER no apology neceflary for this intrufion on the Read Nor. 

 public fituation in which your talents and reputation have * 

 placed you. Whatever tends to the acceffion of knowledge, 

 or the illuftration of antiquity, cannot prove unacceptable to 

 your Lordlhip, when adding a mite to the Tranfadlions of the 

 Academy which is diftinguifhed by your fuperintendence.. 



Why I "have addrefled a fubje<ft of this nature to the Irifli. 

 Academy, when there is a fociety exifting who feems to have 



a title 



